How to Stop Rampant Junk Fax?

Fascist Christ asks: "The company I work for, like many other companies, uses a fax machine. We get an annoying ammount of advertisements by fax and are looking to find an effective way to stop it. We have tried requesting to be removed from the lists, but we get too many to do this every time. One company told me that they get there info from infoUSA. Does anyone have any experience with this or other companies and know how to stop this activity without getting a lawyer involved?" How difficult would it be to set up a fax system that would use caller-ID blacklists before answering the line? At the very least you can block identifiable spammers by something that's harder to change than their email address: their phone number.

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[norwoodites]

Use a computer based fax machine. Then only print out the ones you want to print out.

$500 fines, work real good!!

[GOD_ALMIGHTY]

That's right, if your in the good ol USA, you get $500 per each violation in civil penalities after the FCC gets it's fine. Junkbusters.org has info on this and links to the complaint pages and contact info at the FCC.

eFax.com Just got fined $24Million for doing this. It was on /. last month.
Do a search in the article archive next time before wasting time posting.

The solution to this problem in the UK is...

[floydigus]

...to sign up to the Faxing Preference Service. Once you have done this, you appear on the list of people it is unlawful for anyone to fax-spam.

If you're concerned about the amount of tree-ware spamming you through your letterbox then sign up for the Mailing Preference service while you're at it.

Finally, you can also sign up to the Telephone Preference service and foil those legalised war-diallers that phone you up and then hang up on you when they realise they can't connect you to a sales drone.